“All countries are starting to look back ideologically towards their past, even Russia is receding not even to the time of Stalin, but before the beginning of the 20 c., while some countries are moving right back to the Middle Ages. All turn to their roots looking for their cultural identity. All are trying to…
Category: Брой 3
New boundaries in the space of the museum. FORTRESS – FESTUNG exhibition in the space of the Sofia Arsenal – Museum for Contemporary Art, article by Lilyana Karadjova
What are the fortresses of the modern world and how do we penetrate their matter and significance? This pressing question which has taken on a new and specifically European meaning was raised in the space of the Sofia Arsenal – Museum for Contemporary Art in September 2015. Some of the most well-known and active young…
New life by Alexander Valchev (at the Goethe Institute Sofia, January 2016)
When I was invited to do an exhibition at the Goethe Institute I began to think of how it can be linked with the place. I wanted to make a connection with the institute and the country it represented, their relations with Bulgaria and that which was currently happening in our countries. Just then there…
Scrap Opera by Daniela Kostova (for the Sofia Queer Forum 2015 – Sweet union, 3-19 December 2015)
Scrap Opera This series of photographs depicts a couple of squatters in a ruined Victorian mansion. An open-air kitchen is a stage for obscure performance: a pregnant woman with horns, a man in a dirty morning robe and sleeping mask, old chicken bones garnishing a fine table setting, etc. Pagan tradition flavors this pre-apocalyptic American opera. Are these…
Algorithm of fear, photo series and article by Nadejda Pavlova
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Reflections (2015), photo series of Yoana Emilova Angelova
The word reflections can offer more than just one meaning. This is the term we use to describe an image on a smooth, mirror-like surface; at other times that same term is an influence or a consequence; it could mean recreation. I interpret the reflection as an independent reality which is not at all defined…